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Introduction : cultural analysis --
The cultural public sphere --
British identity and the people's princess --
The social construction of a cultural disaster --
A community of communities --
Identity and the crisis of community --
Sociology of the mobile phone --
Risky culture --
Neoliberalism, urban regeneration and cultural policy --
Apprentices to cool capitalism --
Cultural studies and cool capitalism.

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Jim McGuigan has done it again. The complex cultural machinery hiding behind the apparently simple 'facts of life' still fresh in our collective memory, has been pulled out from its hiding, exposed, disassembled and put together again, and showed in action of shaping up its products; all that done to the benefit of us all - simultaneously producers and product of the life we share. Another great contribution to cultural studies; and to our understanding of the world notorious for defying/escaping understanding. This is exactly what we need 'cultural analysis' forProfessor Zygmunt BaumanEmeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds Jim McGuigan is one of cultural studies' leading practitioners. This volume is a generous and wide-reaching exploration of how to use cultural theory to explore a wide variety of topics, brought together under the sign of the struggle for a vigorous, participatory public sphereToby MillerUniversity of CaliforniaRead more...